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Presidential candidate Gustavo Petro (centre) and his running mate Francia Marquez (centre right) with the Historical Pact coalition, stand before supporters with Marquez's wife Veronica Alcocer (second from left) and their daughter Andrea on election night in Bogota, Colombia, Sunday, May 29, 2022
LEFTIST candidate Gustavo Petro has won the first round of the Colombian elections.
He will face a run-off against a millionaire businessman who has previously praised Adolf Hitler.
The former mayor of Bogota gathered 40.3 per cent of the votes in Sunday’s poll and will go head to head in a second round with Rodolfo Hernandez, who finished in second place on 28 per cent.
The disputed election of a far-right president, who is also a US citizen, signals further consolidation of Washington’s regional power and represents a threat to the country’s democracy and sovereignty, writes WT WHITNEY JNR
ENRIQUE SANTIAGO ROMERO says the Colombian far-right’s election victory is deeply suspect — and the United States has its fingerprints all over it
Colombia’s success in controlling the drug trade should be recognised and its sovereignty respected, argues Dr GLORY SAAVEDRA